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  • Volume 98, Issue 5

    • Volume 98, Issue 5

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    Liquids, Gas Demand Hikes Expected IN US This Year

    Jan. 31, 2000
    Demand for petroleum products in the US will increase this year in step with a global oil market fast swinging away from surplus.
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    US, Canada Should See Robust Drilling This Year

    Jan. 31, 2000
    Healthy increases in oil and gas well drilling can be expected in the US and Canada in 2000.
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    Global Market Needs More Oil From OPEC

    Jan. 31, 2000
    The oil market will need an increase in supply from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in 2000.
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    Prospects for Turkey's imports of FSU gas brightening, but hurdles still on horizon

    Jan. 31, 2000
    Since discovery of the Shah Deniz gas-condensate field by a BP Amoco PLC-led consortium in the Azeri waters of the Caspian Sea last summer, Turkey's options for importing gas ...
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    Hydrotesting not required under new API-653 procedure

    Jan. 31, 2000
    An analytical method has been developed that allows aboveground storage tanks (ASTs) to be returned to service after major repairs without a hydrostatic test.

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    Seismic reveals new eastern Precaspian target

    Jan. 31, 2000
    The intracontinental Precaspian basin is located at the triple junction of the European, Turan, and Kazakh plates (Fig. 1).
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    Environmental index quantifies reservoir characteristics

    Jan. 31, 2000
    An easily calculated semiquantitative index, which expands on conventional sample-description procedures, may be used to indicate relative levels of porosity and permeability ...
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    Saipem expands deepwater fleet with Scarabeo 7 semisubmersible

    Jan. 31, 2000
    Scarabeo 7, a converted semisubmersible delivered Oct. 25, 1999, will utilize a thruster-assisted, eight-line mooring system outfitted for water-depth operations up to 1,500 ft...
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    US firms press greenhouse gas initiatives

    Jan. 31, 2000
    Eventually researchers may reach a consensus as to whether catastrophic global warming is a reality, but until they do, US oil and natural gas companies are taking matters into...
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    Integration seen as best business model for US refining-marketing

    Jan. 31, 2000
    The current state of the US refining industry is well-documented and widely acknowledged by those who participate in it and by the array of observers and analysts that follow ...
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    Watching GovernmentMerger morass

    Jan. 31, 2000
    Some disagreements are too deep for compromise, as BP Amoco PLC and ARCO have discovered in seeking US Federal Trade Commission approval of their $26.8 billion merger.
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    US gas market to surge in coming decade

    Jan. 31, 2000
    The North American natural gas sector will experience unprecedented growth over the coming decade, with increasing demand coming mostly from growing needs in the power generation...
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    INDUSTRY BRIEFS

    Jan. 31, 2000
    Poseidon crude oil pipeline, ... was damaged in an accident involving the 8-ton anchor of Transocean 96, a second-generation semisubmersible drilling rig owned by Transocean Sedco...
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    EIA notes utility merger trend

    Jan. 31, 2000
    The US Energy Information Administration has reported that many investor-owned electric utilities (IOUs) have merged with other utilities to improve their positions in the new...
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    Oneok-Southwest Gas merger called off

    Jan. 31, 2000
    Southwest Gas Corp. has sued Oneok Inc. for unspecified damages after Oneok abruptly terminated a pending $1.8 billion merger between the two companies rather than risk taking...
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    Indian refinery output falls short of plans

    Jan. 31, 2000
    After the start-up of three new Indian refineries and the tripling of capacity at Mangalore Refineries & Petrochemicals Ltd.'s complex, there is not a glut of petroleum products...
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    Retrofitted hydrotreater feed filters reduce operating cost, waste handling

    Jan. 31, 2000
    Retrofitting hydrotreater-feed filters with wire-mesh filters significantly reduced the operating cost at Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s Alberta oilsands plant.
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    Stocks and oil prices

    Jan. 31, 2000
    An easily overlooked number in this week's Forecast & Review special report raises important questions for the oil and gas industry (p. 44).
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    North Slope Alaska GTL options analyzed

    Jan. 31, 2000
    A recent study indicates that a slow-paced, gas-to-liquids (GTL) scenario for developing Alaska's North Slope gas is the only option that has a rate of return greater than 10%...
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    OGJ Newsletter

    Jan. 31, 2000
    All the supply-demand indicators are confirming what oil prices have been signaling of late: oil markets are getting tighter.
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    MMS expanding royalty in-kind

    Jan. 31, 2000
    The US Minerals Management Service is expanding its oil and gas royalty in-kind pilot projects.
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    Statistical analysis

    Jan. 31, 2000
    The OGJ Economics Editor monitors and interprets a variety of petroleum-related statistics and is often asked to provide selected data on a moment's notice.
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    First kerosine lamp

    Jan. 31, 2000
    In your Petroleum in the 21st Century issue (OGJ, Dec. 13, 1999), I found a list (see table of contents) of milestones of important events and achievements in the oil industry...
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    TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS

    Jan. 31, 2000
    Halliburton Energy Services, a business unit of Halliburton Co., Westport Technology Center International, and Petrotech have established a global alliance for performing reservoir...
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    MOVES AND PROMOTIONS

    Jan. 31, 2000
    GRI, Chicago, Ill., has named Chris Duhon vice president and general manager of GRI's Pipeline Business Unit.
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    EQUIPMENT/SOFTWARE/LITERATURE

    Jan. 31, 2000
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